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Will I ever find peace from the slings and arrows of Outrageous Fortune? (It's beginning to look like the answer to that question is NO!!!) Between school, Elvin, David, Marcus, my family, and trying to keep my sanity and sense of humor despite all of them, I found it v difficult to gwt to sleep last night. It was raining pretty hard, so even the windchimes wern't as soothing as usual. I never count sheep (I don't know about anyone else, but I can't ever get the sheep to jump over the fence), but eventually I was so desperate I started going through my multiplication tables. I reckoned I should do it, since it is only with SUPERHUMAN effort that I manage to stay awake in maths. I was soaring through the fives when I heard someone outside. At first I thought it was a cat. Then it made another noise and I knew that if it was a cat, it wasn't your average sort of cat; it was more like aI was at the window in a flash! There was just enough light in the other flats for me to make out a dark sinister figure crouched like a very large puma on the garden wall. All those lectures from the MC finally paid off. I quickly squeezed through my door, raced into the kitchen, and dialed 999. Then I went to wake up Justin. (He's always had a more sense of adventurethan the parents, and he acts without thinking.) Justin wasn't asleep; he was working on some project for college at his desk. He grabbed his camera and ran to the kitchen. I grabbed the heaviest tripod and followed. The rest, as they say, is history. justin was just stepping out of the garden door with a tea tray over his head when I got into the kitchen. He shouted something threatening like "Don't move!" and he started snapping. I reckon it was the first flash that caused the intruder to fall off the wall. I ran into the garden brandishing the tripodand warning him the police were on their way. Justin yelled at me to be careful of his tripod, and the dark sinister figure roared, "For @#$%'s sake, Isabella, are you trying to kill me?" It was Mr. Burl. My wind chimes were driving him BONKERS and he'd hauled himself up on the wall to try and cut them down. He stabbed himself in the calf with his pocketknife when he fell off the wall.